We didn't have one single bite of turkey this Thanksgiving. My mom did not order the usual turkey this time because there's usually so much other food that there would be so much of it left over. We had chicken, shrimp, and other tasty side dishes. Since we did the big dinner with my folks on Wednesday night, we had Thanksgiving to ourselves on Thursday.
Originally, we were going to have dinner out but changed plans and cooked instead...the both of us. Yes, we had hot-pot, which means you have a bunch of raw food (thinly sliced lamb and beef, shrimp, enoki mushrooms, and fresh vegetables) and a boiling pot of water in front of you, and you just boil the food as you eat. To make the meal more special, and since a turkey would've been too much food for just the two of us, we had the traditional Thanksgiving lobster (which in actuality was probably closer to what the pilgrims ate during the first Thanksgiving, as told to me by my TA). And indeed this was a very tasty tradition, maybe something we will repeat in the future.
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It's more than just water you are boiling your fixins in...it's broth. Mom likes to use chunks of beef rib bones & just cook them in water for a long time until the meat falls off, then use that for the broth. Sometimes she adds big chunks of daikon radish & let that get super tender, too.
What did you do with the lobster for this meal? It looks like you steamed it whole, or did you buy it already cooked?
Yes, I realize about the beef ribs and daikon, but then I'd have a bunch of leftovers that Ken wouldn't eat and I'd have to eat it all.
It was a 3-lb live lobster. We ate the tail that night and saved the rest to make a lobster sauce for pasta (see previous post).
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